Way,way back, so long ago "Search" can't find it, Wordsmith posted an epnymic verb,
"Fletcherize" meaning alleged health benefit from chewing each mouthful forty times before
swallowing. To prove I'm not fabricating this, here is a quote about it:
"One of the earliest promoters of changing how one eats was a man named Horace Fletcher,
(1849-1919) of Lawrence Mass. He evolved a system called Fletcherism, concerned chiefly
with the slow mastication (chewing) of food. Among his numerous publications are Glutton
or Epicure(1899) and Fletcherism: What It Is (1913). Try looking up Fletcherism or
Fletcherize in any dictionary.

If you follow Fletcherism, you will chew each bite of food until it becomes a watery mass in
your mouth before swallowing. This has two effects. First, if you chew a bite of food that
long, you will be consuming your meal at a slower rate. Secondly, the reduction of this
food to a watery mass means that it will be less difficult to extract nutrients from the food."